{"id":1310,"date":"2012-03-15T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2012-03-15T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:41:41","slug":"the-red-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"The Red Envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I subscribed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.netflix.com\/home?country=1&#038;rdirfdc=true\" >Netflix<\/a> DVD service specifically because I wanted to see the series, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0944947\/\" >Game of Thrones<\/a><\/i>. When I checked my DVD queue next to the first disc was the dreaded word\u2013Wait. I was disappointed. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I received an email that stated the first disc of <i>Game of Thrones<\/i> would arrive today. <\/p>\n<p>And it did! <\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten how much I love receiving those red envelopes.<\/p>\n<p>I have been using the Netflix streaming service since I gained access to an iPad. The instant gratification of streaming is great, but I missed having access to information about films, directors, screenwriters, and actors that comes with the DVD subscription. I enjoy viewing the body of work by a particular person, or films with a similar theme.<\/p>\n<p><i>Game of Thrones<\/i> was on my list because I wanted to see more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0227759\/\" >Peter Dinklage<\/a> after viewing <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0340377\/\" >The Station Agent<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that bothered me about having only the streaming service after having both streaming and DVD, was the loss of my DVD queue. Whenever I read about a film that sounded interesting I would add it to my queue. Often those titles appeared in the Saved section. <\/p>\n<p>I did find my queue by accident\u2013<\/p>\n<p>After I signed in to my account I went to the Netflix blog and clicked on the RSS Feed Page.<\/p>\n<p>On the RSS Feeds under Personalized Feeds I clicked on Queue and there was my DVD queue.<\/p>\n<p>I made a copy of it.<\/p>\n<p>Time for popcorn and <i>Game of Thrones<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I subscribed to the Netflix DVD service specifically because I wanted to see the series, Game of Thrones. When I checked my DVD queue next to the first disc was the dreaded word\u2013Wait. I was disappointed. Yesterday I received an email that stated the first disc of Game of Thrones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Red Envelope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}